Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dianne M. Keller

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The result was keep. seicer | talk | contribs 21:33, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dianne M. Keller (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

This person does not appear to be important enough to have her own article. She is a mayor of a city, but not much else can be said about her. --- RockMFR 22:16, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Seems to meet WP:BIO. Horselover Frost (talk) 23:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and Redirect to Wasilla, Alaska. She is notable within this article. --Pmedema (talk) 00:32, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Other than the fact she followed Palin there seems to be very little to say about her. Take Palin out of the picture (e.g. [1]) and I can't see her being a subject of significant coverage by reliable sources. I also disagree with redirecting to the town. We aren't in the business of having town articles list every mayor they've ever had, and she won't be mayor forever. So, once she steps down it isn't clear that Wasilla, Alaska would even mention here (right now she is only mentioned in the infobox). Dragons flight (talk) 01:41, 5 September 2008 (UTC) [reply]
  • Apparently capital "OR" is much more effective than lower case "or". Count me as neutral for now. Dragons flight (talk) 02:40, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Lots of new sources, which would indicate significant third-party coverage. It's at least enough to demonstrate notability for what text is there. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 02:33, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and Expand plenty of coverage of her and the town that is separate from Ms. Palin and I'm guessing at least a small amount of it is significant and non-trivial coverage of the Mayor herself. Though I agree that we need to do our absolute best to keep people from either side of the political spectrum from using the article as a WP:COATRACK. Jasynnash2 (talk) 10:02, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Delete? You're kidding right? I don't think at this stage of her career the woman needs a 5,000-word article, but she is definitely notable. She is notable within the Wasilla, Alaska community, which has received a lot of media attention here recently. And shoot me, but I think just about ANY mayor of ANY decent-sized town deserves a Wikipedia listing just because they are heads of local governments and their actions affect thousands of people. 68.12.110.233 (talk) 02:10, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The mayor of a small town deserves the same respect that we would accord a large city mayor. Do not ban information that does not seem relevent to another person, because all information is relevent. jojhutton (talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jojhutton (talk • contribs) 14:43, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Relevant in relation to Sarah Palin and her past history. I wish people would spend time creating and fixing articles rather than attempting to delete them. Moncrief (talk) 17:08, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.